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Google I/O: Oops, All Gemini!

5/22/20262 hr 2 min

The gang is all back together! We start things off with a generational rant from David about the state of smartphone photography before going deep into everything announced at Google I/O. Spoiler alert: it's AI. Then we wrap it all up with a new camera, marble racing, and of course trivia. Enjoy! Links: Sony tweet Verge - Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot Petapixel - Panasonic camera Jelle's Marble Run 2026 Follow us on socials: Marques: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd⁠⁠⁠ Andrew: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli⁠⁠⁠ David: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.threads.net/@davidimel⁠⁠⁠ Adam: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17⁠⁠⁠ Ellis: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/EllisRovin⁠⁠⁠ Waveform Threads: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast⁠⁠⁠ Waveform Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/waveformpodcast/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠ Waveform TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast⁠⁠⁠ Join the Discord: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/mkbhd⁠⁠⁠ Intro/Outro music by 20syl: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/2S53xlC⁠⁠⁠ Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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First 90 seconds
  1. Speaker 10:00

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  2. David Imel· Host0:28

    I read a stat last week that there's, like, a quarter of the amount of people, there's rats in New York City. Like, there's- No way ... a quarter... Yeah.

  3. Marques Brownlee· Host0:36

    Wait, what?

  4. Andrew Manganelli· Host0:37

    Wait, hold on. I don't understand what you said.

  5. Marques Brownlee· Host0:38

    You're saying there's four times as many rats in New York City?

  6. David Imel· Host0:40

    Yeah, yeah. There's- Yeah, but- There's one quarter as many rats- There's one quarter of a rat for every person ...

  7. Marques Brownlee· Host0:44

    there's one rat per every four people. [laughs] [laughs] There's one rat for every four people.

  8. David Imel· Host0:46

    [laughs] Yeah, one rat. Isn't that... That's, like, a- That's a lot of rats ... it's a pretty big, big number.

  9. Marques Brownlee· Host0:50

    There's one- Okay, so one rat for per four person, people. That's way too many.

  10. Andrew Manganelli· Host0:53

    So there's a 25% chance you have a rat following you.

  11. David Imel· Host0:55

    There's a 25% chance you are a rat.

  12. Marques Brownlee· Host0:57

    [upbeat music] Yo, what is up people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marques.

  13. Andrew Manganelli· Host1:10

    I'm Andrew.

  14. David Imel· Host1:11

    And I'm David.

  15. Marques Brownlee· Host1:11

    And this week there's music playing for some reason. I don't know why.

  16. David Imel· Host1:15

    What do you mean for some reason?

  17. Marques Brownlee· Host1:15

    But it feels- We're all back ... appropriate.

  18. Andrew Manganelli· Host1:17

    We're back.

  19. David Imel· Host1:18

    We're all back.

  20. Marques Brownlee· Host1:18

    Oh, that's why.

  21. David Imel· Host1:19

    Everyone's here.

  22. Andrew Manganelli· Host1:20

    We're here.

  23. Marques Brownlee· Host1:20

    True.

  24. David Imel· Host1:20

    It's the normal crew.

  25. Marques Brownlee· Host1:21

    Wow.

  26. Andrew Manganelli· Host1:21

    Spoiler, we didn't even say our names yet.

  27. David Imel· Host1:23

    We did.

  28. Marques Brownlee· Host1:24

    We did.

  29. Andrew Manganelli· Host1:24

    Audio didn't... Did we?

  30. David Imel· Host1:26

    Yeah, we did.

  31. Marques Brownlee· Host1:27

    Wow.

  32. Andrew Manganelli· Host1:27

    We actually just did.

  33. David Imel· Host1:27

    I'm Rusty.

  34. Unknown speaker1:28

    [laughs]

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